Mark Ferree - Open Source Web Development

You hear a lot of talk in development circles about the power of Apache, but it's not often that developers of small sites get to leverage this power.

Those days are over thanks to the combination of Drupal and the contributed module Pathauto.

One excellent feature in Apache that you often hear about but rarely get a chance to use is mod_rewrite. Part of the reason for the rare use of this feature is the fact that it is hard to set up, and even harder to set up correctly.